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Belgium bill to legally kill children & demented adults

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The Belgian Federal Parliament is reportedly about to expand its controversial "right to die" policies to include access to euthanasia for some gravely ill children.
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The bill would also likely allow euthanasia for patients suffering from Alzheimer's and other diseases leading to advanced dementia, who may otherwise be deemed incompetent to make the decision to die. There were 1,133 cases of euthanasia recorded in Belgium in 2011, accounting for about 1 percent of the country's deaths that year, according to AFP.
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https://www.ibtimes.com/belgian-parliament-posed-approve-child-euthanasia-law-1301825
 
I think that a legally, medically controled process for euthanasia should exist. Make it difficult to obtain but if I have alzheimers and i can no longer remmeber anyone in my life, or heck even my life, then I no longer wish to be here.
 
This is a difficult topic. Many of these children or adults would have died 50-100+ years ago without the medical care we resort to nowadays. I think most of us are initially abhorred when we think of children being given the right to die - until we've seen first-hand the enormous suffering of those with grave conditions, just wasting away in pain for their last days, weeks or months.
 
I am thinking along the lines of an incurrable disease that results in severely impaired quality of life or death, no hope for recovery, signed documents by your doctor and an independent 2nd doctor attesting to that fact, letter from an attorney saying you have inquired about the legal ramifications of it, signed statments from both parents if it is a minor, a statement froma spouse if married...
 
Sooooooo what's wrong with this?

It's not like the state is mandating it. Why shouldn't folks in horrific situations be given the right to choose? I don't get it.
 
The Thriller said:
Sooooooo what's wrong with this?

It's not like the state is mandating it. Why shouldn't folks in horrific situations be given the right to choose? I don't get it.
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Who, in this thread, has said they shouldn't?
 
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